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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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Information Management in the Not-So-Distant Future of Health Care

AIIM

If I’m not Zooming with my primary care provider, I’m swapping data with a specialist via a phone app or transmitting my blood pressure readings from my remote monitor to the disembodied nurse in my voicemail who chides me with messages if I miss a reading. Your symptoms will often be diagnosable from that data. Or so it seems.

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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Seeks Comment on Digital Innovation by Banks

Data Matters

electronic payments, check capture and online banking), the OCC lists some of the new technologies, the implementation of which may be hindered by ambiguous, burdensome or inflexible rules, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, biometrics, cloud computing and big data/analytics. Comments are due by August 3, 2020.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Data Protection Law – What you need to know

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Middle East’s data protection regulatory landscape is complex, and continues to develop with Saudi Arabia’s ( KSA ) newly published Personal Data Protection Law ( PDPL ). While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR. Deceased’s data.

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What IG Professionals Should Know About the Internet of Bodies

ARMA International

Microchips are just one example of the increasing variety of smart devices that are near to, attached to, or reside inside the human body. Once connected, data can be exchanged, and the body and device can be remotely monitored and controlled.” These devices are no longer relegated to science fiction and spy thrillers.

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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

based Dun & Bradstreet [ NYSE:DNB ] is a data analytics company that acts as a kind of de facto credit bureau for companies: When a business owner wants to open a new line of credit, creditors typically check with Dun & Bradstreet to gauge the business’s history and trustworthiness. .” Short Hills, N.J.-based

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Fund Managers Targeted in Sophisticated Cyberattacks

Data Matters

This post summarizes the practical measures that may be adopted to protect your firm against cyberattacks and the keys to successful crisis management in the event that an unauthorized data breach occurs. Even with robust controls in place and extensive precautions taken, an unauthorized data breach may occur. what a person has (e.g.,